Dr. MacLeod takes advantage of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires to comment on the Supreme Court session just ended. He may be overstating things a bit, since the court’s decisions weren’t universally awful. After all, they included the slapdown of the independent state legislative authority theory as well as turning away an example of […]
In my defense, unlike Wallace the Brave (AMS), I’m retired and don’t have to know what day it is. The post office is closed from noon Saturday until Monday, which is when the Chinese restaurants and barber shops are closed. That’s about it. Now that I’m retired, I don’t get a haircut very often and, […]
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of Bucha by the retreating Russian army. A simple depiction, for which he is to be commended, but not at all a simple demand, though it’s hard to disagree with on principle, even in Bell’s British […]
Ann Telnaes summarizes yesterday’s confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown-Jackson, which, as she notes, had nothing to do with assessing the judge’s qualification but were, instead, a chance for GOP politicians to compile sound bites. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia) asked her a for-real question about allowing cameras in the Supreme Court, and she properly replied that — […]
Having recently discussed how often cartoonists land on the same concept, here’s Adam Zyglis (Cagle) with an example of accepting the fact and making it work. Rockwell’s painting is “Freedom from Want,” one of his four freedom classics, celebrating the best of American culture and tradition, and, specifically, the Four Freedoms laid out in FDR’s […]
Chris Riddell (The Guardian) lays down the reality facing Donald Trump, though it also explains in part why Republicans will no doubt put in an extra effort to find flaws in mail-in ballots in order to exclude them. Which brings to mind this David Horsey (Seattle Times) cartoon from the hanging chad debacle in […]
Let’s begin this very personal saunter through the funnies with a self-own in the form of this Bizarro. Back in my Struggling Author days, I dwelt in the land of D-level rejection: My novel manuscript would often come back with a personal — rather than a pre-printed — letter, but never the kind that asked […]
I woke up this morning and discovered that the new horror on social media was that, while small-business owners were describing their experiences during the lockdown, Dear Leader was goofing on his phone and paying no attention. Which you can see here but is it really that much of a shock? Granted we didn’t have […]
John Branch starts us off with a political laugh. Trump’s standard defense is “I don’t know the guy,” which means that, if you rob a bank, the police should only interview witnesses you’ve had lunch with. I know politicians who pride themselves on the number of people they know, and even cheat the number up. […]
Alex neatly answers my usual “where to start” question because I should have pointed out this development when it started, which was Monday. Start there and catch up. I don’t know if it’s a complete game change for the strip, which is generally centered on Britain’s business community, but, then again, it hardly matters because […]
In the current “Heart of the City” story arc, she has become class president, which puts her in conflict with her best friend, Dean, reporter for the class paper. I like the story, but have to object to that last panel, because you don’t smile when you drop a rock on a pal. There’s satisfaction […]
Willie is not unlike Ralph Kramden, in that he is a fool in the classic sense and thus, no matter how ridiculous his antics, you can’t help identifying with him. And the classic fool often speaks truth, as in today’s Willie & Ethel, because much of what we know about the CIA, we know from […]